![]() New York City’s schools just adopted Meatless Mondays, while fast-growing companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are selling plant-based burgers and other products that taste, look and even feel remarkably similar to conventional meat starting Monday, Burger King is going to start selling beef-free Impossible Whoppers. The influential EAT-Lancet Commission study recently warned that Western diets include far too much meat, and more than half of Americans say they’re trying to cut back. But this is a delicate time for the industry. "Meat is as central to American culture as cars or sports the average American eats three burgers a week, and even more chicken than beef. It’s talking up its own climate progress, while trying to ensure that any Green New Deal-style government efforts to cut agricultural emissions use financial carrots rather than regulatory sticks or even meat taxes. meat industry is taking the global warming debate seriously. So at a time when concerns are already growing about meat’s effects on human health and the treatment of animals on factory farms, the U.S. Red meat has a greater impact on the climate than any other food if the world’s cattle formed their own nation, it would have the third-highest emissions on Earth, behind only China and the United States. ![]() But livestock really do have a serious impact on the climate-and the extreme rhetoric about cow farts and rounding up ranchers is obscuring a consequential debate over the future of animal agriculture in general and beef in particular. ![]() "This Washington stir over the burger police is classic political theater, the latest tribal skirmish in America’s partisan culture wars. It says nothing about seizing steaks, and no Democrats are pushing to confiscate cows regardless of their tailpipe emissions. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a vegan who hopes to replace Trump, really did recently observe that 'this planet simply can’t sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture.' But the actual Green New Deal resolution calls only for dramatic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the driving force behind the Green New Deal, really did suggest that 'maybe we shouldn’t be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch and dinner,' and her office did release (and then retract) a fact sheet implying a desire to 'get rid of farting cows.' A lot of environmental activists really do target red meat, and Sen. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) actually ate a burger during a press conference on Capitol Hill, an activity he claimed would be illegal under a Green New Deal. At Thursday’s rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump portrayed a green dystopia with 'no more cows.' In a recent Washington speech, former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka warned conservatives that leftists are coming for their hamburgers: 'This is what Stalin dreamt about, but never achieved!' Rep. They’re accusing Democrats of a plot to ban beef, trying to rebrand the 'Green New Deal' for climate action as a nanny-state assault on the American diet. Politico: " Inside the Race to Build the Burger of the Future" - "Politicians often rally their supporters with partisan red meat, but these days Republicans are using actual red meat. Here are the nutritional facts for the new product, per serving:įor more on Beyond Meat's burger, visit the company's product fact sheet. Here are some other nutritional facts, per serving (one patty):īeyond Meat also has a new burger product out, the "New, Meatier Beyond Burger." The company says it "features a meatier taste and texture as a result of blended pea, mung bean and rice proteins in addition to marbling designed to melt and tenderize like traditional ground beef." (Beyond Meat) The Beyond Meat Burger we purchased and ate contains 20 grams of plant protein per serving. ( The Beyond Burgers From The On Point Kitchen ( Schafer, vice president of marketing for Beyond Meat. Author of " The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era." ( Mangano, nutrition program director and professor of biomedical and nutritional sciences at University of Massachusetts Lowell. Michael Grunwald, senior staff writer for Politico Magazine. Are they healthier or better for the planet? We ask. ![]() Meat-free burgers are sweeping the nation. Both are plant-based alternatives to meat.(Richard Drew/AP) Facebook Email An Original Impossible Burger, left, and a Cali Burger, from Umami Burger, are shown in this photo. ![]()
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